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Live Stock in Uruguay. 



essence of the usual method of butter-making- is to endeavour 

 to bring about conditions which are favourable to the develop- 

 ment of certain species of bacteria ; the essence of the Danish 

 method is to kill or inhibit the growth of all the bacteria 

 concerned in the process of "ripening" and to promote the 

 necessary souring of such cream by the introduction of a 

 starter prepared from " pure cultures." By this means butter 

 is manufactured which can be safely exported to England 

 without the use of preservatives. It is of interest, in relation 

 to the bacterial flora of cream, to note that there would 

 appear to be a tendency to pasteurise at an increasingly high 

 temperature, and experience indicates that, within certain 

 limits, the higher the temperature av which the cream is 

 pasteurised the better is the resulting butter likely to be. 



The writers of the Report state that the progress of the 

 practice of pasteurisation in Denmark has been remarkable, 

 and at the present time the vast bulk of Danish butter is made 

 from cream thus treated. The passing of the law of 

 March 26th, 1898, which renders the pasteurisation of milk 

 used for the food of cattle compulsory, has doubtless been a 

 force in the diffusion of the custom of cream pasteurisation, 

 but the practice seems to have become general mainly 

 owing to the satisfactory results which, in the opinion and 

 experience of the Danes, have accrued therefrom. Moreover, 

 the fact that the process is calculated to destroy most, if not 

 all, the pathogenic bacteria has not been without its influence 

 in a country where the care of the public health is made a 

 matter of considerable concern. 



[Report of the Committee on Food Preservatives. App. TIL, Cd. 833.] 



Live Stock in Uruguay. 



The Board have received through the Foreign Office a 

 memorandum, prepared by Mr. C. S. Pratt, Acting Consul at 

 Montevideo, upon the census of live stock taken in 1900 in 

 Uruguay. 



The total number of animals is given as 26,134,896, or 



